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Interesting ideas, but once you start adding tons and tons of features that look good on paper, the site starts to lose its community focus and you alienate som
by dcurtis 19y ago
Interesting ideas, but once you start adding tons and tons of features that look good on paper, the site starts to lose its community focus and you alienate some people.
By nichifying digg, you'd convert one huge community in a ton of little ones.
Anyway, you can already kind of do this, by selecting specific categories and viewing only stories sorted there.
- kyro 19y agoWell, I'd rather be part of a bunch of smaller communities who share the same interests as I do, tend to have more in depth knowledge than the whole community about said subjects, and who care about the quality of submissions, like here on news.yc. I find much more value in that. And I think news.yc is evidence enough that social news sites run by niche communities can thrive and prosper.
- nextmoveone 19y agoditto. from my tmobile dash.
- dcurtis 19y agoYeah, but from the perspective of converting digg into a bunch of news.yc communities surrounding other niches, I highly doubt that could ever happen. And any attempt to do that would just ruin the digg community.